That's a fair statement, but Giuliani could have made a move at Hillary's Senate seat, and then we'd have seen if he'd be a viable threat in NY. He could have just hinted and then seen what the polls would do. He didn't have to actually run. But he stayed out of it.
My take is that he knew she had him. Taking NY will require him to speak out as the liberal that he is. And that will kill him with the base. After that, it'll be all over. President Hillary.
There are a million reasons why Rudy did not make a move on Hillary's senate seat in 2006 - first and foremost being he did not want to be senator but president.
Rudy is running as Rudy. That is one of the things I admire about him. He is Rudy! He makes no apologies for it. Whereas I hope Duncan Hunter can win, I will have no trouble voting for Rudy in the general election.
President Hillary is not the sure bet that everyone fears it is either. Like I said, we have a long way to go until the conventions.
That's a possibility. The other is that he figured out that it's much harder for a Senatorial or Congressional candidate to win the Presidency.
Plus there was the cancer treatment-- it's significant time to take out of the campaign to go, depending on whether chemo et al is necessary.
But even if I don't vote for him in the primaries (I don't know whom I will support yet), I can respect that he's a lot smarter than she is. Heck, Obama is showing that he's a lot smarter than she is. Obama may be an empty suit, but he's a smarter empty suit than she is.